Brian Williams: “Michael, when has Truth been doubted before, the way it has been doubted under this Administration by enormous segments of society?”

Prof. Michael Bechloss: “I think never in the history of the Presidency, I think it’s pretty fair to say that. And even what we saw with Mr. Miller was an example of that. His saying that the poem doesn’t count because it was put on later, you know, it’s sort of like the Bill of Rights was ratified four years after the Constitution, so Bill of Rights isn’t very important either.”

As Sailer notes:

I guess I must have dozed through the history class when we discussed how Emma Lazarus’s poem was ratified by two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress and then by three-fourths of the states.

4 Responses to “Beschloss ’77 on Immigration”

i missed where the statue of liberty was ratified by those votes as well.

shitty analogy needs to at least be consistent. it was about an American mythology of immigration. I cannot believe (well, I can) that Sailer would bring up history classes of immigration considering those histories all tell a story of xenophobia -> laws that then get overturned because they were harsh and immoral.